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This company is a disaster it seems, and I have just setup my whole home infrastructure and home security aound their products... They where the most recommended brand when I was shopping for new stuff a year ago.
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> Note, however, that roaming between APs is a feature of the 802.11 standard; In theory yes, but man do a lot of devices have terrible roaming heuristics. "I can still see beacons so id better stay here even though i havent received a packet in the last minute. Wouldnt want to pay the time cost of associating with that other BSS that has 5X the signal"
Do people _really_ need wifi roaming in their homes? I have multiple cheap APs setup in my house using the same SSID and it's fine. As long as I'm not holding a realtime conversation and moving around between APs I never have any problems. And since I almost never hold a Skype call while walking through my house I almost never have any issues.
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> Note, however, that roaming between APs is a feature of the 802.11 standard; In theory yes, but man do a lot of devices have terrible roaming heuristics. "I can still see beacons so id better stay here even though i havent received a packet in the last minute. Wouldnt want to pay the time cost of associating with that other BSS that has 5X the signal"
Do people _really_ need wifi roaming in their homes? I have multiple cheap APs setup in my house using the same SSID and it's fine. As long as I'm not holding a realtime conversation and moving around between APs I never have any problems. And since I almost never hold a Skype call while walking through my house I almost never have any issues.
If I'm in the living room and need to move to the other end of the house to get away from family-related noise, the device needs to roam between two APs.
Unifi handles this without any issues.
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If admin login is using weak credentials, it is by definition not a secure backend. Password/credential management and mandatory MFA are ALWAYS part of security due diligence for suppliers.
Except if it is awscli creds, then of course there is no MFA.
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Surely 802.11r has a purpose, yes?
Yes, roaming by sharing SSID and passcode is a world of pain. 802.11r solves all those pains, I've been using it on OpenWRT for months without a glitch.
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Mikrotik is amazing, for what you get. But of a learning curve but worth the effort, I've seen large scale wireless networks crossing mountains with their kit.
I am not a fan of Mikrotik, the UI is not nice and the defaults are not smart. I have seen professionals make mistakes on them several times.
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Disclaimer: worked for Meraki (now Cisco Meraki) for several years. Generally, halfway decent wireless APs are all targeted at the enterprise market. Consumer hardware is a brutal race to the bottom, as lay consumers aren't qualified to compare options based on anything but price and UI. Ubiquiti was an outlier in trying to bring enterprise features to the consumer market The problem for enthusiasts and small busines…
Worth noting that Meraki have a small business option now: https://www.meraki-go.com/
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Was shopping for alternatives to my Ubiquiti last night. Seems like there is nothing good out there. Engenius has shit hardware and a cloud controller. Aruba has a cloud controller AND you have to pay for a license. Cisco makes you pay for a license. TP-Link is cloud-based. WTF. Does anyone have a decent WAP where I can use PoE, deploy like 5 of them and have them support roaming between APs, all managed locally? Is…
Peplink seems pretty good; they do have a Cloud:tm: management offering called InControl2 but as far as I'm aware it's entirely optional. I've had good luck configuring everything via the local UI. My setup is a Balance Two + a few One AX APs.
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how do you enable 802.11r on openwrt? on which model of router
Install the wpad pkg and 802.11r should show up in wireless config screens. See https://forum.openwrt.org/t/802-11r-fast-roaming-in-luci/117...